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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Realist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Roptist.
(d) Nihilist.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Illegal.
(b) Darkened.
(c) Untrained.
(d) Silly.

3. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Exactly the same.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Weird.

4. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) All humans.
(b) The world's darkness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

5. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Darkness.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Forest.
(d) Trivial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

2. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.

3. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.

4. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

5. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

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